St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-04-21


her there, for she was more ambitious
than was. l told her Amos Lawrence
was a rich man who liked to help girls,
and she could get money of him and
paw it back: and so she and | got him
to help her, and she went to school and
| went up into New Hampshire, and
after keeping a district school in two
towns l kept a select school In Hanover
where the college is, and then l got
along very nicely.
"Well, Amanda she got through
school and they hired her to keep
school right there in Lowell, but she
met nice man and got married, and
he became judge, believe, and she
had a very nice girl who keeps school
i'm New York City, and she is your
friend Miss D. Well, | never
married, and so kept on teaching.
"Last August Amanda died, and as |
was getting old sent all her letters to
her daue liter, for they were too inter
esting to be lost. She was glad to get
these letters, and so she wrote me, and
don't have many friends to write to,
and so l wrote to her.
81 told yOu what hard time | was
having my finaDces had all given out,
and knew couldn't earn enough in
the winter to live on till spring.
had few very kind friends one real
nice lady brings me the Congregation
alist every week, aud that keeps me
company, for / can read a paper, yOu
see, and keep on knitting (and she still
piled her needles), but | can't do that
with book, but all these things
wouldn't keep me alive, and so pray
ed to die before it got too haN- The
landlord said he wouldn't turn me out,
but couldn't get any coal to start the
winter with, and made up my mind
| should freeze but one of the good
women in the block went to a relief
society, and they sent me ton of coal.
You see was so grateful that had to
tell somebody, and there was nobody
to tell but Amanda's daughter, and so
| wrote to her, and she was so excited
that she sent me $40 u month herself,
and about the first of March she said a
gentleman was going to help her help
me, and she guessed I'd have an easier
time"
She paused little, put her hand up
to her head, and then with look of
interest said: care you that friend 2
| ought to have thought of it before,
but | don't think as quick as | used
to-"
"You say You printed that piece 7"
"Is it teachers that are giving me
money 2"
She talked slowly, thinking her way
along. "And it all comes about at
last because l helped Amanda to get
out of the mill and keep school,"
u t,r,. Il IL, fc.
keeps school, and she asked you, and
to help a teacher that is eighty 7"
"You asked me how l earned money.
There it is again. Two or three Chi
cagO teachers have had me make out
their report cards, and have paid me
for it. The boys like my mittens, and
buy all can knit. If it didn't cost
any more to live in winter than in
summer, and if boys wanted mittens
in the summer as we'll as in the win
ter, | should have no trouble.
"YOu say the boys told you where L
live? Well, Miss D wrote that
some one thought l might go to an
Old Ladies' Home. You may think it
strange for lady eighty years old to
say it, but don't like to be with old
people. have always been with. chill
dren, and that is what keeps me
young. All the children here know
me, and think do them good. If |
thought could live right here in these
rooms, | should be happy-n--
assured her that she could, that
the teachers of America had interested
themselves in her, that her expenses
were light, and she might stay there
as long as she was able to live alone.
| then asked her how she succeeded in
finding school to "keep" until she
was seventy-One years old.
"Well, | did get too old to keep
school in Vermont, but there were
country districts in Florida where
they didn't have good teaching, and
when was sixty-three Il didn't look
so DID, began keeping school down
there, and they thought | was a fine
teacher. had three different schools
in neglected districts, and organized
three Sunday schools where they new
er had any, and they all grew. L had
to do it all. l had to teach all the
teachers how to teach the lesson.
never believed in women speaking i'll
meeting up in Vermont, but | had to
do all the speaking and praying. l
had such good schools that they let
me keep the last one till | was seven
ty-one. l think 1 did more good after
was sixty than ever did before"
elbow did l get down to Florida ?
Well, that was because | went to Mary
land and kept school four years. |
had two sisters that kept school in
Maryland, one eighteen years and one
twenty years, but they died good
while ago. Well, they had me come
there and keep school, and | always
had good friends, and they helped me
to go to Florida, where it wasn't easy
to get anybody to keep good school"
The next day took to her home
one of the leading Chicago principals,
and an enthusiastic lady teacher, who
will act as a local supervisory COM
mittee. We sent up good mattress,
chairs, and table and they will see to
the curtains, table cover, carpet and
whatever else will make her comfort
able i'm her home. The principal well
said "She has developed the faculty
of faith, and now we will try to aid
the sight by giving her tangible com
FORTS"
All honor to more than thousand
whose many mites have made
generous provision possible for one of
the loveliest of aged ladies, who has
been kept young by keeping school,
being with the children. May Heaven
add gracious blessings to her remain
ing years!
LOngfellOw's ssTrash.o
A correspondent of the Critic tells of
the ungraciOus reception of LOngfel-